# Dystopian Sci-Fi settings...centered outside of Europe, N. America, Japan? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621 "2020-08-09T01:35:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![moes\_lotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@moes\_lotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moes_lotion)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621/21 "2020-08-11T06:14:13Z")
I just added “Who Fears Death”, by Nnedi Okorafor, to my summer reading list. It is set in a post-apocalyptic Sudan. She has another novel, “Lagoon”, set in Lagos, not however a dystopian version of the city. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621/22 "2020-08-11T14:28:18Z")
Not Lagos, but for dystopian Nigeria you could do worse than Gavin Chait’s Lament for the Fallen. One of my favourite books the year it came out. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621/23 "2020-08-12T16:35:20Z")
Does _The Year of the Angry Rabbit_ (Australia) count? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621/24 "2020-08-13T01:38:30Z")
There’s [Turkey Shoot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Shoot_(1982_film)); wealthy VIPs hunt political dissidents in a concentration camp in a fascist future Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621/25 "2020-08-13T22:50:23Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > > [@N9IWP](#): > > > > Aren’t the Road Warrior movies set in Australia? > > > > Brian > > That was my first thought. I’m not sure if _Mad Max_ and its sequels count as sci-fi, but they’re definitely dystopian. I don’t know if they specifically mention a location in the first two movies, although there are some hints that it’s Australia IIRC (which, of course, is where they were filmed). But _Beyond the Thunderdome_ pretty much confirms they’re in Australia, when they find the wreck of a Qantas jet and, at the end of the movie, the ruins of Sydney. > > ETA: I suppose you could say the fact that Max drives an Australian Ford Falcon confirms the setting as Australia, too. The bizarre plane in Beyond Thunderdome is also a Transavia Pl-12 Airtruk, a uniquely Australian crop duster. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621/26 "2020-08-16T00:30:29Z")
The Netflix show "[3%](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%25)"is post-apocalyptic TV series set in Brazil, where the elites have fled to a paradiscal island while the urban mainland was just sort of left to die. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dystopian-sci-fi-settings-centered-outside-of-europe-n-america-japan/917621.md?page=1)